Extra wide forums

Help!
When I am trying to read some of my forum threads. They are taking up the whole screen and I have to move my slider bar to read them. It's only a couple doing it, but yesterday it was only one. Now 2 are doing it. The others are normal with the right column where it has always been. This has happened before, but just stopped doing it after a day or so. Any advice would be great.
George

me too

ann

I'll bet, if you looked at the thread titles, somebody has made a really long one which is stretching the page in those forums.

Assuming the wideness is when you're in a thread (rather than on the main forum page) it's more likely that someone put in a really long string of text in one of the posts within the thread. If you can figure out which post it is that's throwing things off, you can always request that the poster edit their message to remove the offending text string (or put a space in it somewhere) I've seen this happen when people put a few too many o's in their OOOOH! exclamations, or if they have a long hyperlink that wasn't put in correctly and it wound up being displayed as text rather than as a hyperlink.

Hey Ecrane!
One front page looks normal until you look at post. Then It's extra wide. One forum(co-op) is extra wide at the first page. It's the daff,crocus, tulip thread by lorraine. Would you look at it for me.(pretty please with some sugar on top) You seem to be computer smart and maybe you could figure it out.
THANKS!!
George

And speaking of extra wide links, you can always convert those to a tiny URL by going to:

http://tinyurl.com/

It's very handy.

June

It's the second post is the culprit, the link didn't go through properly.

Assuming I'm looking at the correct thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/832065/ it looks totally normal on my computer. But I'm on a Mac with Safari browser so on a Windows computer maybe things look weird. I think I do see where the problem may be though--if you look in the 2nd post in the thread (from oneanjl), the first daffodil listed has a messed up hyperlink that shows up as a long string of text. My browser has split it onto two lines, but if yours doesn't then that could be the problem. In order to fix things, oneanjl would need to edit it and put a space between the number 26 and the hyperlink, that should make the hyperlink show up as a hyperlink rather than a string of text, and that will probably solve your problem. Unless there's another problematic post farther down the thread, I didn't check any farther once I found that.

In the second post, under Daffodils, there is a extra long link that seems to be the culprit.

THANK YOU!!!
I am sending the dmail now to her.
George

I took care of it ;o)

It wasn't an extra long link - if you insert a hyperlink into a post, it's really important to be sure there is at least one space or a hard return at the front and end of the URL. If it bumps up against a stray letter at the beginning, it won't shorten properly into an active hyperlink. If the problem is at the end of the string, the link might shorten, but it won't work - it's including that extra letter or word in the link.